NASA is hiring new talent to rebuild its core competencies and meet the agency’s aggressive moon deadlines. But this push to staff up comes just two months after thousands of civil servants received ...

Here are the stories on Texas Standard for Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. Check back later today for updated story links and audio. What Maduro’s arrest means for Venezuela and the region The U.S. military’s ...

During last February’s winter storm, damage to power infrastructure across Texas and great demand for power contributed to widespread outages across the state and a near total failure of the state’s ...

The Rev. James Harrington became an Episcopal priest in January 2020. Harrington is the director of Proyecto Santiago, a Christian outreach mission for Austin’s Hispanic community, at Saint James ...

About a decade ago, one of the signature residents of the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, the black-tailed prairie dog, disappeared when the refuge’s entire colony suddenly died out. Now, after ...

Here are the stories on Texas Standard for Wednesday, July 22, 2026. Check back later today for updated story links and audio. Trump moves to reopen trade talks with Canada and Mexico President Donald ...

In February of last year, the Texas Observer reported that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assistant chief counsel who acts as a prosecutor for ICE in ...

Seven percent of the Earth’s population, nearly 1.8 billion people, watched the World Cup final yesterday. The championship-winning goal for Spain came in the 106th minute. A final gesture from the ...

Starlink, the satellite-based internet service offered by SpaceX, will provide broadband to 64,000 Texas locations, covered by the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program, also known as BEAD.

Medicaid is a federal program that provides free or cheap health insurance for more than 70 million Americans who are either low-income or have disabilities. The program is massive and costs hundreds ...

On May 17, 1929, bandleader and saxophonist Isidro López was born in Bishop, Texas, in Nueces County. Commonly known as “El Indio,” a nod to his father’s Mescalero Apache ancestry, López was a major ...

Election Day is upon us. The last day for Texans to cast their votes in the party primaries is Tuesday, March 3. The results of these elections will determine who represents Republicans and Democrats ...